Vaio is known as being a premium series of laptops. From all points of view. Sony Vaio EB offers a very good quality of construction and also a great performance.
There are manufacturers that focus more than the low price than the quality of the product. In the first case, you pay less but you get a laptop with a not so good construction and probably other bad things. In the second case, you pay more, but you get a really good product.
We haven’t noticed any design or construction flaws on the Sony Vaio EB. The plastic that covers the biggest part of the case is of good quality.
The design is great, giving it a specific elegance. All the corners are round, aspect that fully contributes at the elegance of this model.
Sony Vaio EB has a Chiclet type keyboard. The keypads have a good distance and writing is very comfortable. The Numpad hasn’t negatively influenced the construction of the keyboard. The only weak point is the dimension and the placement of the arrows. They are small and crowded.
The touchpad is also excellent. At the beginning it may prove to be too sensible, but you can configure it. Personally, I haven’t appreciated the fact that the touchpad is not placed in the center of the laptop, but on the center of the main keypads block. To use it, you have to get your hand more to the left.
The Sony Vaio EB has a 15.5 inch screen, 19:8 format and 1366 x 768 pixels resolution. It’s not the biggest resolution but it’s suitable for office, and also for multimedia applications.
It glows, but the visibility at natural life is better than other laptops. Even so, if the light is very strong and hits directly in the screen, then things become a bit difficult.
The model we worked with has an Intel Core i5 M520, 2.4 GHZ processor which does a very good job. To support it, it also has 4 GB RAM DDR3 , on a Windows 7 Home Premium operating system. FOr games and movies, Sony Vaio EB uses an ATI Radeon HD 5650 video card with 1 GB of memory.
For office and multimedia applications, this version with Core i5 processor proved to be very fast. Photographers can be happy with the RAW processing in Photoshop CS5. The video card, although it’s not one of the best there is, it does well with older games. But anyway this is not a laptop for gaming.
About connections, excepting a Firewire, Sony Vaio EB has everything there is, including an Express Card, eSata, HDMI and VGA output. It has 3 USB ports and placed near each other on the right side.
If there is any disappointment about the Sony Vaio EB this is the battery autonomy. WHen working with office applications the battery lasts around 2 hours. When watching HD movies, the battery lasts only around 1 hour and 40 minutes. Overall, the Sony Vaio EB is an excellent laptop from any point of view, the only exception being the autonomy. Also, it’s not the most expensive laptop on the market however it offers a great performance for it’s price.
The Sony Vaio EB Laptop
It’s not suitable for gaming? I thought the HD 5650 card was pretty good, especially with 1GB of memory, that’s what I bought this laptop for mainly though :’(
Don’t worry man. This laptop is excellent at gaming. They probably had a model with the Intel HD or ATI 5470 card. The ATI 5650 is a beast of a card and should run almost all games on high detail with an exception of a few (4 or 5 games only).
Just bought one:
Green
Intel Core i5 M520 that can push 2.8
ATI 5650 with 1gb
4gb ddr3
500gb hard drive
Overall if you want the best bang for your buck this is the laptop for you. It has style,flavor mixed with performance.
I am a collage student so this beats Apple mac books by far.
Almost the same specs as a mac book pro for 1500$+. Dells don’t even come close.
I’ve been looking at these. I’m going off to college in the fall and was trying to find a reliable laptop for a nice price. Would this be a smart buy? Is there something you would recommend?